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Christoph
Asked: 2012-05-03 09:41:11 +0800 CST

TFTP Server atftpd fails to start

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I have installed atftpd on Ubuntu 12.04, but it looks like I cannot start the tftp server, and there's a problem also with the tftpd daemon. With Ubuntu 11.10 there was no problem.

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atftpd (0.7.dfsg-11) wird eingerichtet ...
unknown protocol: udp4

With rlinetd, and also as daemon, it doesn't work.
with ps -afe I see no process.

/var/log/syslog says it cannot bind to ip address.

with option --bind-adress the atftpd server starts but also doesn't work.

tftp 12.04

4 Answers

  1. I've checked out atftpd source code, and find out that working line for /etc/default/atftpd is

    USE_INETD=false
OPTIONS="--tftpd-timeout 300 --retry-timeout 5 --port=69 --maxthread 100 --verbose=5 /srv/tftp"

    You need to specify port to fool atftpd. So now tftp server is available from all network interfaces.

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  2. You are probably affected by bug #993101

    Please confirm if you are having same problem! Eventually, you can always download the source and install by yourself..

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  3. This is how I got atftpd working in 12.04:

    1. Edit /etc/default/atftpd

      a. Change inetd=true to inetd=false

      b. Removed all multicast options, added --bind-address=<my local static ip>

      c. Created /tftpboot directory (modify /etc/default/atftpd accordingly as the default directory is something else) with user nobody group nogroup

      d. Also added --logfile /var/log/atftpd.log (first touch /var/log/atftpd.log and set permissions accordingly)

      e. Set --verbose=7 to capture all messages

    2. Edit /etc/rlinetd.conf and made services available only local network by specifying my interface as my local IP address.

    3. Stopped started rlinetd

    4. Ran invoke-rc.d atftpd start as root.

    Hope this is useful.

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  4. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

    This system has an ip address of 192.168.0.5

    sudo touch /var/log/atftpd.log

    sudo chmod 644 /var/log/atftpd.log

    here's my /etc/default/atftpd

    USE_INETD=false
OPTIONS="--port=69 --tftpd-timeout 300 --retry-timeout 5 --mcast-port 1758 --mca
st-addr 192.168.0.0-255 --mcast-ttl 1 --maxthread 100 --verbose=7 /tftpboot --lo
gfile /var/log/atftpd.log"

    sudo mkdir /tftpboot

    sudo chmod 777 /tftpboot

    touch /tftpboot/simple.txt

    sudo invoke-rc.d atftpd restart

    From another system (on the same subnet) running busybox

    tftp -l simple.txt -g 192.168.0.5

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